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    Inward
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    Inward

    By Yung Pueblo

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    About this ebook

    From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes the first in series, a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the reader that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781449498801
    Inward
    Author

    Yung Pueblo

    Diego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. The results he witnessed firsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing.   The penname yung pueblo means “young people” and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens.   Diego’s online presence as yung pueblo, as well as his books, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation.  Today, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife, where they live quietly and meditate daily. 

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    • 5/5
      I cannot recommend this book enough times! One of the best of its kind! Absolutely real!
    • 5/5
      Therapy in poetry form. Self-reflective and heartwarming. Wish more people can read this
    • 5/5
      I love Yung Pueblo's book clarity and connection also inward. A new perspective of life. Free ourselves so we can grow.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely potent wisdom!! Must read and really allow yourself to sit with it. ??
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this, it had so many quotes I loved and will revisit again again.
    • 4/5
      Powerful words but sometimes i feel it a bit repetitive
    • 5/5
      Just amazing. Felicidades hermano. Continue your success, always and forever.

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    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. I had my journal and book out at the same time digging into the deeps of my being and soul. Asking the hard questions and sitting in silence waiting for answers to surface. Pure magic. This will be a book to read every 6 months for some serious personal reflection.

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    • 5/5
      This book is phenomenal. I encourage everyone to read this.

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    • 5/5
      Inward by Yung Pueblo is a beautiful collection of spiritual poems. Two serve as an intro of sorts, followed by 5 sections- Distance, Union, Interlude, Self-Love, and Understanding. This book dealt me a gut punch. These poems sang to my soul, conjuring sadness and longing, but hope as well. They are about loving yourself, and finding your own self-worth, which I am in desperate need of doing. I just have such a hard time of it. I feel patently unlovable. I do get locked in obsessions and binges, trying to use outer things to fill an emptiness that cannot be filled with frivolity. I ended up purchasing a copy of my own, and enjoy flipping through to random poems, using the one I land on as a meditation focus. Highly recommended for those who enjoy poetry, and all things spiritual.***Many thanks to the Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

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    • 2/5
      I requested this from the library because I have repeatedly seen it mentioned as "great poetry". This is not poetry. This is the author's guide? experience? narration of? his journey to self love, kindness, search for happiness. Which is great for him, but there is very little actual practical advice in here. I also think this author is young and has fortunate enough to not yet been faced with caregiving duties that cannot just be "let go". Or difficult people you cannot simply cut out of your life (bosses, teachers, coworkers, family). Or the drag of health problems, job searches, and so on. But I guess that is also why his pen name means "young people" (per author bio).I can see why some people might love this book. I also think I am decades past that point in my life.(Shelved as poetry though I disagree.)

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    Inward - Yung Pueblo

    two of the great lessons humanity

    will learn in the 21st century will be:

    to harm another is to harm oneself

    when you heal yourself, you heal the world

    reclaim your power,

    heal yourself,

    love yourself,

    know yourself—

    these phrases are becoming

    more and more common. why?

    because they are the pathways to

    our own freedom and happiness

    contents

    distance

    union

    interlude

    self-love

    understanding

    distance

    before i could release

    the weight of my sadness

    and pain, i first had

    to honor its existence

    i was never addicted

    to one thing;

    i was addicted to filling

    a void

    within myself

    with things other

    than my own love

    to solely

    attempt

    to love others

    without first loving yourself

    is to build a home

    without a strong foundation

    three things make life harder:

    not loving yourself

    refusing to grow

    not letting go

    i lived so long

    with a closed heart,

    not because

    i was afraid to get hurt

    but because i was afraid

    of the pain

    i had hidden away

    before we can

    heal and let go,

    what ails us

    deeply

    must first

    come to the

    surface

    i spent so much time

    creating versions of myself

    that were far from the truth,

    characters i would perform

    depending on who was around

    layers that could hide

    the inner dance of turmoil,

    between my lack of confidence,

    the pain i did not understand,

    and the uneasiness that comes

    with reaching out to others for the

    love that i was not giving myself

    (before the healing)

    i kept running away

    from my darkness

    until i understood

    that in it i would

    find my freedom

    many of us walk the earth as strangers to ourselves, not knowing what is true, why we feel what we feel, actively working to repress experiences or ideas that are too jarring for us to observe and release. it is a paradox occurring in the human mind: we run away from what we do not want to face, from what brings feelings of pain, and from problems we don’t have answers to, but in our running away from ourselves we are also running away from our own freedom.

    it is through the observation of all that we are and accepting what we observe with honesty and without judgment that we can release the tension that creates delusions in the mind and walls around the heart. this is why the keys to our freedom lie in our darkness: because when we observe our darkness by bringing our light of awareness inward, the ego begins to dissipate into nothingness and the subconscious slowly becomes understood.

    the mind is full of shadows, but shadows cannot withstand the patience and perseverance of light—our minds can become like stars, powerful united fields of pure light. but unlike a star, the healed mind will dwell in awareness and wisdom.

    when we disconnect

    from our pain

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